Re: YYMMDD (was: Re: Láadan)
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 13, 2002, 7:36 |
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* daniel.andreasson@vpc.se said on 2002-12-12 14:48:29 +0100
> tal wrote:
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> > > Yep. They also mark dates as year/month/day in that order.
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> > Sensible of them.
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> Of *them*? Don't you do that in Norway?
(Is the affirmative here "yes" or "no"? Always forgets, N. has a third
word "jo" to answer affirmatively here.)
Norwegian standard is dd.mm.(cc)yy. Today would be 13.12.02 or 13.12.2002.
Taking a few dates... Dec 12, 13 and 14 and Nov 13 of the same year,
and sorting them with a standard stringsort thus yields
Norwegian: ISO:
12.12.2002 2002-11-13
13.11.2002 2002-12-12
13.12.2002 2002-12-13
14.12.2002 2002-12-14
Guess which I think is better :) I've been programming a frontend in PHP
lately, and the date-support is completely <censored>. It guesses dates
from strings as described in
<http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_7.html>
and is rather <censored> and of course US-centric. It doesn't support the
Norwegian date-format at all, among other things. Now, the ironic thing
with PHP is of course that one of its primary creators is a Norwegian
(from my own uni. even!)
> Is it just us in Sweden plus Hungarians who use the YYMMDD order?
> Are all other countries insane?
Well, I think a two-digit year is quite insane, so there ;p
t., waiting for this thread to change it a "date-format(s) for my conlang"
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